Computer Rant

[stovebolts]

Don't you love it when your computer freezes and you loose hours worth of work?...

What about when your VPN'd into your corporate server, and the application you develop in corrupts your past 3 hours of work and it was due in the morning? Geesh, I'm throwing in the towel... and I was so close to being done.

As an FYI, I do database development using a fine product called DataStage... geesh, it's easier to write straight SQL code than this "ETL" program. What a pain. Well, gonna be a fun day tomorrow since I just blew my deadline.

Isn't that the way it works though? I went to the optometrist earlier today and he put some stuff in my eyes that caused me not to be able to see for the past 5 hours... and I had to hang out at Wallmart 2 hours strolling around until my eyes were well enough to go outside to sit in the car another 30 minutes before I could drive.

Now I'm gonna go to work and tell the boss, "Yup, the dog ate my homework". Only thing about my excuse is that I have the corrupt code to prove it

I'm throwing in the towel. Nice thing is that tomorrow I won't have to figure out what I need to do. I just need to code it

 

[Corn Pop]

 

[GodsGrace]

Don't you love it when your computer freezes and you loose hours worth of work?...

What about when your VPN'd into your corporate server, and the application you develop in corrupts your past 3 hours of work and it was due in the morning? Geesh, I'm throwing in the towel... and I was so close to being done.

As an FYI, I do database development using a fine product called DataStage... geesh, it's easier to write straight SQL code than this "ETL" program. What a pain. Well, gonna be a fun day tomorrow since I just blew my deadline.

Isn't that the way it works though? I went to the optometrist earlier today and he put some stuff in my eyes that caused me not to be able to see for the past 5 hours... and I had to hang out at Wallmart 2 hours strolling around until my eyes were well enough to go outside to sit in the car another 30 minutes before I could drive.

Now I'm gonna go to work and tell the boss, "Yup, the dog ate my homework". Only thing about my excuse is that I have the corrupt code to prove it

I'm throwing in the towel. Nice thing is that tomorrow I won't have to figure out what I need to do. I just need to code it

StoveBolts
I know nothing about computers - except that you need a new one every 6 to 7 years and I've had one since 1995 and worked on Dos since 1989.

BUT, I'm surprised at you StoveBolts.
How come you're not saving your work onto an external drive?
Is this not possible with that fancy writing program you're using?

Computers are like everything else.
They're nice
but they're terrible.

Or, as my brother would say - it's an imperfect science.
(there's a perfect one??)

Wondering

 

[th1b.taylor]

Don't you love it when your computer freezes and you loose hours worth of work?...

What about when your VPN'd into your corporate server, and the application you develop in corrupts your past 3 hours of work and it was due in the morning? Geesh, I'm throwing in the towel... and I was so close to being done.

As an FYI, I do database development using a fine product called DataStage... geesh, it's easier to write straight SQL code than this "ETL" program. What a pain. Well, gonna be a fun day tomorrow since I just blew my deadline.

Isn't that the way it works though? I went to the optometrist earlier today and he put some stuff in my eyes that caused me not to be able to see for the past 5 hours... and I had to hang out at Wallmart 2 hours strolling around until my eyes were well enough to go outside to sit in the car another 30 minutes before I could drive.

Now I'm gonna go to work and tell the boss, "Yup, the dog ate my homework". Only thing about my excuse is that I have the corrupt code to prove it

I'm throwing in the towel. Nice thing is that tomorrow I won't have to figure out what I need to do. I just need to code it

Even though windoze users fight the truth that is a common issue, that and the Blue Screen of Death. I quit coding years and years ago, long enough that I no longer know anything beyond basic HTML and i ceased building and mastering websites better that 5 years ago meaning I am now a blithering code idiot.

Point though, the day I dropped windoze and loaded Ubuntu, those issues ceased. I loaded windoze into VirtualBox for testing, only, and never saw a freeze again. I occasionally needed to save and reboot but I found that much easier to live with because writing code is all consuming and I, more oft than not forgot a manual save.

 

[JohnDB]

I hate that when it happens.

I remember years ago trying to program in the summer in a house with no AC... shoulda known better.
Didn't do better.

All overheated and blew back garbage. All my code was gone into a scrambled mess.

After that I made sure I had ac.

 

[reba]

Having blurry vision in Walmart is a good thing

 

[th1b.taylor]

Having blurry vision in Walmart is a good thing

It can save money!

 

[jasonc]

Or cost Walmart in My case ,was that demand a 600 0r a 1000?

 

[th1b.taylor]

Or cost Walmart in My case ,was that demand a 600 0r a 1000?

On days my vision is playing stupid because glaucoma is trying to explode my eyes I either do not shop or II take my daughter or wife to read to me. Shopping when unable to read is not smart.

 

[jasonc]

I don't have vision problems.just got tested.I was reading the lines ,all of them beyond 25 ft .I have to read the 5th line font at further distances .I usually can with no glare and a good contrast.I read walmarts meter on the grid.

 

[Mike]

Ten hours of work, and you never hit "save" along the way? With the immense spreadsheets I work with, I save it like I'm OCD on speed. No auto-save even if you don't?

You enjoy flying on the trapeze without a net, huh?

 

[th1b.taylor]

I don't have vision problems.just got tested.I was reading the lines ,all of them beyond 25 ft .I have to read the 5th line font at further distances .I usually can with no glare and a good contrast.I read walmarts meter on the grid.

I, honestly, have no idea where you are.

 

[th1b.taylor]

Ten hours of work, and you never hit "save" along the way? With the immense spreadsheets I work with, I save it like I'm OCD on speed. No auto-save even if you don't?

You enjoy flying on the trapeze without a net, huh?

Not really but I would be doing so well I hated to slow down and save it.

 

[jasonc]

I, honestly, have no idea where you are.

I live in florida,I should be wearing glasses because my eyes muscles correct my near sightseeing. Yet no problem.

 

[stovebolts]

Lol,
Well, just so everybody knows, I crashed our IBM programming application that runs on our corporate Linux servers... And yes, I save after every change.

I think they were doing maintanence last night, because who in their right mind is programming at 10:30 pm? Actually, I should have read our corporate notifications for the platform. Regardless, the app certainly leaves something to be desired.... The program actually crashed when I went to save it.

 

[stovebolts]

Having blurry vision in Walmart is a good thing

Ha, I'm sure I was on their security cameras lol. 2 hours is a long time to walk around half blind looking at stuff, especially with dialated pupils! They probably thought I was stoned! Then I sat in my car for over 30 minutes.

 

[th1b.taylor]

I live in florida,I should be wearing glasses because my eyes muscles correct my near sightseeing. Yet no problem.

Jason,
Please, stop and reread the entire string, you are making a fool of yourself, don't do that.

 

[th1b.taylor]

Lol,
Well, just so everybody knows, I crashed our IBM programming application that runs on our corporate Linux servers... And yes, I save after every change.

I think they were doing maintanence last night, because who in their right mind is programming at 10:30 pm? Actually, I should have read our corporate notifications for the platform. Regardless, the app certainly leaves something to be desired.... The program actually crashed when I went to save it.

LOL! That makes it very rich! It is not the only time I've heard of issues happening during maintenance but it will not make one feel good in any case.

 

[th1b.taylor]

Ha, I'm sure I was on their security cameras lol. 2 hours is a long time to walk around half blind looking at stuff, especially with dialated pupils! They probably thought I was stoned! Then I sat in my car for over 30 minutes.

You're lucky they did not detain you as a hop headed terrorist foor having dilated eyes.

 

[jasonc]

Jason,
Please, stop and reread the entire string, you are making a fool of yourself, don't do that.

My eyes are important to my line of work, can't read I'm gone.if you knew what a demand read was you would have noticed.



One mentioned eye problems
My job uses machines. I input in rain and mud and dirt.they will lock up,loose reads.
I also read numbers in reverse, try reading even smaller font then an eye test at the same distant in a rush .it won't happen.